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Outer Banks, NC - December 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- You don' t see a whole lot of turnover along the Southern Shores oceanfront. People who own beachfront homes in Southern Shores tend to hold onto their properties longer than their contemporaries in most of the other areas of the Outer Banks. There is also a larger proportion of second home owners vs rental property owner amongst the Southern Shores property owners and with the the oceanfront lots in Southern Shores being twice as wide as anywhere else around resulting in half as many lots along the Southern Shores beachfront. (most oceanfront lots measure 50 feet wide and Southern Shores lots measure 100 ft. wide)

Outer Banks, NC - December 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The recession seems to be affecting different segments of the population differently. While all we ever hear about are the people who lost their jobs and who lost their houses and trashed their credit we never seem to hear about the vast majority of people who still have jobs, still have credit and managed to not borrow more than they could afford. These clever folks have managed to stay on the sidelines waiting for the smoke to clear so they could see when it was time to take advantage of the decline in real estate prices brought on by a minority of Americans.

Outer Banks, NC - December 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- To calculate the absorption rate for beachfront homes sales in the OBX vacation destination of Corolla you have to figure the amount of time it will take to sell off all the available real estate inventory. In Corolla there are currently 34 oceanfront houses for sale. The number of beachfront houses sold in the past 12 months was a total of 27 single family homes. With 34 oceanfront homes currently for sale it, will take 1.3 years to sell all of the <a title="Corolla beachfront homes for sale"